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Home / Arts / Literature / Poetry / Forms / Fixed Verse Forms / Sestina
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- "All-American Sestina" - A sestina by Florence Cassen Meyers, at the Atlantic Unbound's website; includes an audio recording, in RealAudio format, of Meyers reading the poem.
www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/poetry/antholog/mayers/sestina.htm
- A Weekly Sestina - This site features new sestinas written by award-winning poet Allyson Shaw as part of her sestina project. It is updated every week with a new poem, visuals, and an audio file of the author reading her work.
home.earthlink.net/~allyshaw
- Island Sestina - A sestina by Kathleen Craker Firestone, at the Northern Michigan Journal's website.
www.leelanau.com/nmj/views/sestina.html
- Iyer's Literary Pages - Sestina by Iyer
www.geocities.com/iyersk.geo/Sestina.htm
- Sestina - A brief definition and description from a course at the University of Pennsylvania.
www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sestina.html
- Sestina - Advice by Damon McLaughlin on how to write a sestina, with an example by Anthony Hecht. Part of a course at the University of Northern Iowa called "The Craft of Poetry."
www.uni.edu/english/craft/sestina.html
- Sestina - By Dante. Translated by A.S. Kline. Includes also two sonnets from the Vita Nuova.
www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk/Webworks/Website/Tenddante.htm
- Sestina - By Elizabeth Bishop.
www.math.nwu.edu/~tran/Poems/Sestina.html
- Sestina - By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Unusual in its use of rhyme.
www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/swinburn31.html
- Sestina in the Computer Age - By Scott Reid.
www.sonic.net/~scotts/sestina.html
- Sestina: Altaforte - By Ezra Pound. Perhaps the most famous modern use of the form.
unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Pound.altaf.html
- Sestinas for Free - A collection by Nicholas Gordon that can be used free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.
www.poemsforfree.com/sestpo.html
- The Sestina - A brief but thorough description of the form from the ThinkQuest Library of Entries, a collection of sites created and maintained by students and teachers.
library.advanced.org/3721/poems/forms/sestina.html
- The Sestina Page - A webpage devoted to the sestina form, with a large online archive of examples.
www.geocities.com/suzstina/sestina.htm
- Writing Activity - Sestina - An overly simplistic description of the form for beginning writers. Part of a larger writing workshop called "Wordweave."
inspired2write.com/wordweav/exers/sestina.html
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